Improvement in washing-machines



W. H. McFARLEN.

WASHING-MACHINE. $10,179,587, Patented July 4,1876.

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PMOTD-UTHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON. D. C.

" NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

WILLIAM H. MOFARLEN, OF DYSABT, IOYVA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND G.ASCHENBRENNER, .OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,587, dated July 4,1876; application filed May '22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MOFAR- LEN, of Dysart, Tama county,Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The invention is an improvement in that class of washing-machines inwhich an endless carrier, formed of slats placed side by side andattached to belts, or otherwise flexibly connected, is arranged totravel in contact with one side of a rotating drum, and thus rub andcleanse the clothes by their combined action. The improvement relates toso arranging the endless carrier that it nearly encircles the drum,space only being left for the introduction and removal of the clothes,as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation on line at x of Fig.2, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

A is the cylindrical drum, which is formed of parallel corrugated stripsattached to circular heads. tric shaft within the tub or box 0, androtated by a crank, in the usual way. The endless carrier B is formed ofcorrugated strips attached to one or more belts. The carrier is doubled,as it were, upon itself, and encircles the drum A, except at the pointF, where It is supported upon a concen-.

space is left for introduction and removal of the clothes to be washed.The carrier passes around drums D, which are located near each other onthe open side of the tub O. In order to keep the belts of the carrierseparated, and thus avoidthe friction which would result, I arrangerollers E between them, as shown.

When the machine is to be used, the tub O is partly filled with suds,and the clothes are placed in the space F. rotated, and the frictionbetween it and the carrier B causes the latter to travel around thedrums D. This movement takes the clothes into the space between thecarrier and drum, so that they are rubbed, washed, and rapidly cleansed.So soon as cleansed they are removed and others substituted.

hat I claim is The combination, with the corrugated drum A, of theendless carrier B, supported upon drums D and friction-rollers E, andarranged to encircle the drum A, except at F, Where space is left forintroduction and removal of the clothes to be washed, as shown anddescribed.

WILLIAM H. MCFARLEN. Witnesses:

THOMAS OURYEA, PAUL N ABHOLZ.

The drum A is then

